International Women's Day.

At the current rate of change, it will take 131 years for women to earn the same as men.

This bare fact points towards the lived experience of being a woman.

The times the man in authority or the man serving speaks to my spouse and not to me. The regular underestimation of my intellect and of my resilience. The patronising tone. The valuing of ‘male’ structures and ways of being over ‘feminine’ ones.

It's hard to REALLY know how it is to be a woman in this world unless you live as one. And the patriarchy, like all oppressive systems, disserves us all.

Let's keep smashing the fucker up. Let's take a hammer to it - all of us - and break it into pieces. Let's recycle it into the earth and grow something new and wild and beautiful.

I love my siblings of all genders. We are better than this. We will keep rising up.